The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-07-16
AS AN ART CRITIC.
Bill Wye, in New York World.

Iaklng the WOTLd artist with me in order to know fully what I was talking about, visited the Academy of Design day or two ago for the purpose of witnessing some of the pictures of Paris which are now on exhibition there. Many of these pie lures are large and beautiful, while others are small and onery. At the head of the stairs is smallish picture, with good, heavy frame and green ish foreground. It is not on the cat alogue, so I will try to describe it briefly. About half way between the foreground and middle distance there is cream -colored perspective, while above there is rag carpet sky, with Jumps on it.
 "And is there no way of removing these large Jumps of paint, so as to give the picture an even appearance9" l asked MT. McDougall.
 "Oh, no, they don't want to do that, 3 he said; "that is the impasto method of putting on the colors, which brings out the salient features of the paint ing"
 So this imposture method, it seems, is still gaining ground, and this pie tue, with the soldier overcoat sky and green chenille grass and gargetty distance, would no doubt be worth in Paris $13 or $14.
 No. 84 is a picture by Charles Du- rand entitled "A Country Woman in Champagne" I was bitterly disap- pointed in this picture, for though the woman seems to be in good spirits the artist has utterly failed to grapple fully with the subject, and without the catalogue in his hand I would defy the most brilliant connoisseur to say definitely whether or not she is under the influence of liquor.
 We next walk around to No. 16S, a picture by Camille Pissaro.
 M. Pissaro has ten pictures in the academy but this one is the best. It is made by the squirt system of paint ing, graining and kalsomining which IS now becoming so e la mode and rouge ct notT. The artist tells me that the colors are carefully arranged in a tin pail and applied to the canvas by means of squirt-gun or Rembrandt stomach pump. This gives the paint ing a beautiful, yet dappled, appear ance, which could not be obtained with a brush.
 The picture is worth S3 of any mans money, for the frame is worth $2, and there is at least a dollars worth of paint on the picture that is just as good as ever. The artist has handled the feet in a masterly manner, bringing them out SO that they hang over the frame like thing of life. If I could paint feet as M. Pissaro does I would not spend my life stripping buggies in close room among coarse men with putty on their pantaloons, but I would burst forth from my humble surroundings, and would at tract the attention of the whole great world of art with my massive and heroic feet. Then from this I would gradually get so could make pictures that would resemble people. There is no reason why MT. Pissaro should not do we'll in that way, for he has painted No. I'll, "A Woman at a Well," in which the most unkempt and uncultivated peasant can at once distinguish. which is the woman and which is the we'll He is also the author of Spring" a squirt study with blue rash, which has broken out where the sky ought to be. No. 136 is the Execution of Maxi milan" by Edouard Manet, foreign artist. The scene is laid at the base of an old Mexican slaughter house In the foreground may be seen the rear of the Mexican army, with its wealth of tournure and cute little gored panties. All Mexican troops have their trousers gored at the hips Sometimes they also have them gored at the bullfghts which take place there. In the contiguous distance Maximilian may be seen wearing the hat which has evidently infuriated the Mexican populace. The artist says that Maximilian objects to being shot, but I pretend not to hear him and he repeats the remark, so have to say, Every good, very good," and then we pass on to No. 60, which i, entitled "Dreams," by Previs de Cha. vannes. a9
 In this picture a weary man, who has worn himself out sleeping in hay. stacks and trying to solve the labor problem, so that the great curse ot industry may be wiped out and tho wealthy man made to pay the taxe' while the poor man assists in sharing the burden of dividends, is laying or the ground with pleasant smile or his face. He is asleep, with his mouth ,. slightly ajar, showing how his teetf are fastened in their places. He i, smiling in his slumber, and there i. hay in his whiskers. Three decalco. manic angels are seen fastened to tho cIx sv. h< 0C